Former Venezuelan Supreme Court
magistrates Cecilia Sosa Gomez and Roman Jose Duque Corredor moved Monday
before the CNE electoral board to invalidate Nicolas Maduro’s presidential bid
for the May 20th election, arguing that Maduro was born in Colombia and thus
ineligible. The legal maneuver is sure to rekindle the old debate of Maduro’s
nationality. He has never shown his birth certificate and has offered
contradicting reports as to where in Caracas he was born: El Valle, a low
income neighborhood on the West said, Maduro said first. Los Chaguaramos, a
nearby, better off borough, he said later. In 2013, the Supreme Court said it
had no copy of Maduro’s birth certificate, admitting he had been sworn in as
President with only a copy of his “cedula de identidad”, the Venezuelan
national ID. More…
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